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The War of Olympus: Stone & Steel by Zenderfall
Zenderfall
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🥇1st Place - Best Action/Fight Scenes (Golden Ink Awards 2025) 🥉 3rd Place - Best Ensemble (Starfish Awards 2025) -Stargate meets Percy Jackson in this action-packed Greek Mythology retelling! Humanity's salvation lies not in the future, but in the ancient past. Desperate to save a crumbling world, the US Army decides it must reinforce itself with powerful figures of myth. Its newly established Strategic Recruiting Battalion journeys back in time to recruit from Ancient Greece. There, they find Medusa and uncover a legend forged in pain and fury. Exiled and feared, Medusa's name exists only in whispers. Branded a monster, she had abandoned hope of redemption long ago. That changes when Lieutenant James Barnett and his strange company of mortals shatter her dismal solitude. But the gods are watching. And one is prepared to destroy everything-past and future-to keep the ancient order intact. Thrust into a war between gods and mortals, Medusa finds herself responsible for turning the tides of legend. Surviving the conflict means facing an even greater challenge: learning to trust both her allies and herself. The battalion and its new companions must navigate a treacherous ancient world powered by magic and divinity, where their very survival hangs in the balance. New chapters every Saturday at 7:00 AM Pacific!
Proximity by TableSugar
TableSugar
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴇ ʜᴇʟᴅ ʜɪᴍ ᴄʟᴏꜱᴇ, ᴡɪꜱʜɪɴɢ ʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴄʟɪɴɢ ᴀꜱ ꜰɪᴇʀᴄᴇʟʏ ᴀꜱ ᴅᴇꜱʜᴀᴡɴ ᴅɪᴅ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇꜱᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɪɴ ʜɪꜱ ᴄʜᴇꜱᴛ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴀ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪɴɢ, ꜰᴇʀᴀʟ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴀᴡ. "ɪᴛ'ꜱ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴏᴋᴀʏ," ʜᴇ ᴡʜɪꜱᴘᴇʀᴇᴅ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴀɪʀ. ʜᴇ'ᴅ ᴅᴏ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ɪᴛ ᴛʀᴜᴇ. --- Thane Valehart, Commander of the Southern Border and Alpha of the Valehart pack, has always known his duties extend beyond the battlefield. He's simply chosen to ignore them. For years, the strategy worked-until now. Bound by a contract he can't escape, Thane finds himself saddled with a human companion, a living being he knows nothing about and never asked for. The arrangement was supposed to be a formality, a stabilizing measure for an Alpha too long without a pack. Instead, it leaves him off-balance, staring across his quarters at someone fragile, strange, and everything he isn't. He was trained to conquer, command, and survive. He was built for battle, not tenderness. Despite this the more Thane tries to ignore him, the more he notices him: the warmth of his scent, the tremor of his pulse, the softness in his eyes. It leaves him sure that this human might be the one fight he can't win-or the only one worth losing. --- ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅᴀʟᴏɴᴇ
Engaged to the Loan Shark (mxm) by vibewithviv
vibewithviv
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Ardent Currents - Book 1 One lost his dream. One found his heart. In a far future, two men find their fates in each other. Jamar Devereaux I told myself that all I ever wanted was my mother's company. It's why I'm back home to study business. Deep down, I know I only tell myself this lie because I can't have my true dream. He ruined all that for me... and then the accident stole my memories. Now, Mother's managed to put us in the sights of the Union's most notorious loan sharks. And what they want just might be the end of my life as I know it. Alaric Mako I've hunted him for so long, and at last, I'll finally make him mine. Summary: In a far off, technology-driven future of corporate dynasties, news-fluencers, and ruthless debt law, two men are forced into each other's orbit-and into an arranged engagement that only one of them wants... and the other didn't expect to crave. Jamar Devereaux returned home to inherit his mother's empire. But when she defaults on a dangerous loan to the most feared loan sharks in the Union, he's forced to save her-and himself-by agreeing to marry into the Mako family, notorious for collecting their debts with blood, time, and vengeance. His fiancé? Alaric Mako: the devastatingly handsome, cold and calculating heir who's spent years watching Jamar from afar. Jamar can't remember their brief past before his accident-but Alaric hasn't forgotten. As passion flares and old secrets resurface, enemies become lovers and hunters become the hunted in a deadly game of power, trust, and desire. In this world where loyalty is hired and love is a liability, can two men rewrite destiny?
Fated Premonition (Book 1) by NEosHoward
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Getting a second chance after death, Olivia is on a mission to make her new life matter. Once human, she now inhabits the teenage body of a wolf shifter in a world she'd have once considered a fantasy, but her new life comes with new dangers she isn't sure how to fight. Racing against the clock, Olivia tries to make up for the past of the shifter she now embodies while fighting to prevent a horrible future only she knows faces her pack. Can she navigate her new life and prevent the massacre from her premonition, or will she die along with them... again? TW: This story contains mention of assault, both physical and sexual in nature, as well as the mental/emotional healing journey that results from that assault. Note: this book has long chapters All of my stories feature LGBTQ+ characters: in this novel, the MC is bisexual and there are many bisexual/gay/lesbian characters throughout the supporting cast! This book is COMPLETE (some editing still in progress) and chapter releases are scheduled for every Wednesday & Saturday! Stay tuned for Book 2!